7 March 2026<\/time>\n <\/p>\nNick Mohammed rejected Ted Lasso multiple times.<\/p>\n
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Ted Lasso star Nick Mohammed<\/p>\n
The 45-year-old actor – who has been married to his Durham university sweetheart Becka since 2014, and has sons Finn and Arthur and daughter Annie with her – initially declined to audition for the Apple TV+ sports comedy show because he was “too busy”.<\/p>\n
Nick recalled to the Saturday Guardian magazine: “I was 39 when I got the part of Nate in Ted Lasso, an opportunity that very nearly passed me by.<\/p>\n
“I’d been knocking around for a bit, doing comedy and acting. I was married and had two kids. I was very happy to be a comedian who did bits of telly, and was filming my TV show Intelligence with David Schwimmer. <\/p>\n
“When they asked me to audition, I said I couldn’t do it as I was too busy.”<\/p>\n
\nNick was surprised that bosses offered him the role of Nathan “Nate” Shelley – a shy kit man for the fictional AFC Richmond football team who becomes a power-hungry villain as head coach of West Ham United – despite giving them one scene and not three, and looking “half-hearted and arrogant” in it.<\/p>\n
\nHowever, Nick still declined the job because Nate \u201csounded too similar” to his “low-status sidekick guy” alter ego Joseph Harries in Intelligence, and Nick did not want to repeat the same type of role.<\/p>\n
\nBut he changed his mind after a chat with 57-year-old Bill Lawrence, the creator of Ted Lasso – which sees the titular American football coach (Jason Sudeikis) manage AFC Richmond.<\/p>\n
\nNick said: “[Bill] called me personally to ask me to do it – he explained my storyline, which was far more interesting than I’d realised for a supporting role.”<\/p>\n
\nAnd Nick is glad he agreed to play Nate because it changed his life.<\/p>\n
\nHe said: “I am so glad Bill did that, because being on Ted Lasso was life-changing. On a practical level, I could finally get a mortgage. <\/p>\n
\n“But it was also such a surreal and exciting experience – the first time I went to America was to stand on stage at the Emmys.”<\/p>\n
\nIn March 2025, the return of Ted Lasso for a fourth series was confirmed.<\/p>\n
\nAnd 51-year-old show star Hannah Waddingham – who plays Rebecca Welton, the owner of AFC Richmond – accidentally let slip it might air in “August”, when asked at the 2026 EE BAFTA Film Awards in February.<\/p>\n
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